A torrid day for those concerned about short-term rentals: Melbourne Apartment Residents Representative tells ABC Radio’s Jon Faine that their Government’s flipping the keys to Airbnb is “an absolute disgrace”. We can hear the distress in Marshall Delves’ voice; we empathise with him totally. Byron Bay Residents have used Twitter @SISTRO11 to ask Council why it has ignored one of its highest-profile holiday rentals. Local newspaper, The Northern Star, has followed through w

The Holiday Rental Industry Association (HIRA) and Holiday Letting Organisation Byron have written to the NSW Parliament in response to the ‘Options Paper’ on short-term rentals: “It is evident that the activity of providing short-term residential accommodation has always been, and is generally, a legal activity in dwellings that have residential development consent…” Strange then that we have case law aplenty judging otherwise and that Trevor Atherton of HRIA testified to th